Hillside, Arizona
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|map_caption = Location within Yavapai County
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|subdivision_name2 = Yavapai
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|timezone = Mountain (MST)
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|area_code = 928
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Hillside is a populated place situated in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.{{cite web | url=http://arizona.hometownlocator.com/az/yavapai/hillside.cfm | publisher=AZ Hometown Locator| title=Hillside (in Yavapai County, AZ) Populated Place Profile | access-date=November 25, 2016}} The town was named because it sits on a hillside by Date Creek. A post office was established here on July 31, 1888.{{cite book | title=Arizona Place Names | last1=Barnes | first1=Will Croft | publisher=Arizona Place Names | year=2016 | place=Tucson | page=207 |isbn=978-0816534951 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CYorDQAAQBAJ&q=Hillside }}
Transportation
Arizona State Route 96 connects Hillside with Arizona State Route 97 and Bagdad, Arizona to the west. Yavapai County Route 15 heads east from Hillside to Arizona State Route 89 at Wilhoit. Yavapai County Route 62 heads south from Hillside to Arizona State Route 89 northeast of Congress.
Hillside is on the BNSF Railway's Phoenix Subdivision.
Hillside Elementary School District
Hillside Elementary School District consists of one K–8 school in Hillside, named Hillside Elementary. The district has one administrator and one secretary. The school is taught by one teacher with one teacher's aide. The enrollment is approximately 20 students in all grades. The school operates on a four-day schedule, Monday through Thursday and is in session 145 days per year.{{Cite web|url=https://hillsideesd.com/teachers-and-staff-3/|title=Teachers and Staff}} The school district is overseen by a three-member board, with one member serving as president.{{Cite web|url=https://hillsideesd.com/governing-board-members/|title=Governing Board Members}} The average teacher salary is $48.582 as of 2020.{{cite web |url=https://hillsideesd.com/ |title=Home |website=hillsideesd.com}} In addition to Hillside, the district covers Yava.{{cite web|url=https://gis.yavapaiaz.gov/docs/share/School_Districts_36x48_2023.pdf|title=School District Map|publisher=Yavapai County|access-date=2024-12-28}} - Indicates locations of unincorporated areas.
After graduation, students continue their education at Prescott High School in the Prescott Unified School District, which is required under state law to enroll students from surrounding rural primary school districts. The bus ride to Prescott can be around an hour.{{cite news|title=Prescott pupils' transfer may be headed to court|newspaper=The Arizona Republic|place=Phoenix, Arizona|date=1976-08-28|page=A-11}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93189571/for-prescott-usd/ Clipping] from Newspapers.com.
{{Asof|2015}}, the Yavapai County Education Service Agency performs much of the office work for the district, so the district hired only two people for part-time work and therefore had lower per-student administrative expenses.{{cite web|url=https://www.azauditor.gov/reports-publications/school-districts/hillside-elementary-school-district/report/hillside-element-13|title=Hillside Elementary School District|publisher=Arizona Auditor General|date=2015-11-15|accessdate=2022-01-25}}
References
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External links
- [https://hillsideesd.com/ Hillside Elementary School District]
{{Yavapai County, Arizona}}